
What team building in a company actually is
Stages of team development
The economic results of team building
Running a team building exercise for new employees
A step-by-step process for creating any team building activity
Diagnosing the team beforehand with questionnaires
How team building improves the way people work
Types of activities and ready-made exercises
How to unite the work of several teams
Working out which teams need it most
Team building options for different team types
Ready-made exercises you can run immediately
What actually improves teamwork for remote workers
Online team building options
Exercises designed for hybrid teams
Ready-made remote exercises
Typical team problems and how they show up
A team building option for each typical problem
The GRPI model for effective teamwork
The 4Cs of successful teamwork
What competences the team itself needs
What else is required beyond team building events
Gallup and Google research on modern leadership
How leadership relates to emotions
What the essence of leadership actually is
What kind of leadership younger employees respond to
A model of leadership styles
A breakdown of each style
Finding the effective style for the situation
How and when to change your style
How to motivate someone to take on a task
Keeping motivation alive while the work runs
Giving feedback once the task is done
Leading on the basis of individual talent
Stages of team development and what each one needs
How a leader inspires a group
What to do about team burnout
Handling a genuinely destructive team member
Coaching as a management style and when it applies
The coaching skills you need
Running one-on-ones with coaching elements
Facilitating team meetings
Saying no without damaging the relationship
Avoiding the slide into micromanagement
Working with informal leaders
Dealing with broken agreements and problem behaviour
The history of the field and the works of Carl Jung
The four classic personality type scales
How to test and how to read each type
The relationship between personality type and work
The history and logic of the methodology
How to run the test
How to work with each of the four types
DISC as a basis for adapting your approach
What makes this methodology different
How each personality type works
The weaknesses of each type
Recognising a type in conversation without any test
The core of Belbin's methodology and its typical roles
How to build a balanced team
The difference with the Hogan assessment
Where to get tested and how to read a report
What makes the Big Five different
Where to take the test
How to use the result in a team context
Comparison with the other methodologies
How it differs from other typologies
Where to get tested
How to work with the results
How to apply it inside a working team
What engagement is and how it differs from motivation and loyalty
The most common measurement methodologies
Gallup Q12 in detail
How to administer the survey and work with results
Taking apart the twelve elements of engagement
Action planning to improve each one
Giving managers concrete tasks rather than a report
How the first generation of engagement work is run
The tools involved
Preparing the company for launch
The main differences from the first generation
How to prepare the organisation
Engagement tools at this level
Launching it in the company
Overview of the third generation
The tools that come with it
How to prepare your company today
Employee experience as the evolution of engagement
Providing management training that changes behaviour
Giving managers feedback on their own engagement scores
Working together rather than reporting on them
The role of the people function in engagement
The role of business partners
How a manager should change the way they work with people
What makes a one-on-one effective
Elements of a culture of high engagement
Teal organisations and holacracy
OKR as an engagement mechanism
Radical candour and teamwork
Why Google believes businesses do not take off without 1:1
The 1:1 format itself
Business efficiency gained from regular meetings
Who should run it and how often
Performance management and development conversations
Relationship building and coaching formats
Feedback and burnout diagnosis
Handling conflict situations in a one-on-one
How 1:1 improves manager and employee interaction
Building rapport that makes honesty possible
Working with employee engagement
How to make 1:1 the employee's favourite 30 minutes
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
You can have eight strong people and a weak team. Most managers discover this the expensive way.
What is going wrong right now
Everyone is competent individually and the output still disappoints. Meetings are polite and decisions get made afterwards in private conversations. Two people have not spoken properly in months and everyone has adapted around it. The engagement survey came back mediocre, produced a slide deck, and changed nothing. You ran a team building day, everyone enjoyed the karting, and by Wednesday the same patterns were back. Nobody is doing anything wrong exactly, which is why nothing improves.
What changes after this course
You will diagnose the team before you intervene, so the activity you choose matches the problem you actually have. You will know which stage of development your team is in and lead it accordingly rather than applying one style throughout. You will measure engagement properly and convert the result into manager actions instead of a report. Conflict gets surfaced and resolved instead of routed around. And performance conversations become a working rhythm — goals, check-ins, feedback, review — rather than an annual formality everyone dreads.
Your instructor
Mike, the number one HR instructor on Udemy, with more than 1.6 million course enrolments and over 150,000 professionals trained. Holder of PHRi and SHRM-CP certifications and HRCI representative in more than 10 countries. Built the people function of the unicorn Preply and worked at Wargaming, Alfa-Bank and iDeals.
How the course is built
The course assembles a high-performing team from the ground up. It opens with team building done properly: diagnosis first, then activities matched to the specific problem, including remote and hybrid formats, the GRPI model and the 4Cs of teamwork. The second block is leadership: situational styles, motivation, inspiring people through the development stages, coaching and restoring discipline. The third gives you the ability to read the individuals — MBTI, DISC, PAEI, Belbin, Hogan and Big Five — so team composition becomes a deliberate decision. The fourth is engagement: Gallup Q12, the twelve elements, action planning and building a culture where high engagement is the default. The fifth block covers the two conversations that carry everything — one-on-ones and feedback — including coaching with GROW and recognition. The sixth handles conflict from psychology through prevention to mediation. The course closes with performance management: OKR goal setting, check-ins, competency assessment, running the review and using its outcomes for pay, promotion and development.
What is included
- Lifetime access to all course materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- Udemy Certificate of Completion
- Practical assignments and real business cases
- A section with additional courses, tools and resources
Why start now
A team that works badly together costs you every single week, in decisions delayed and good people quietly looking elsewhere. Managers are promoted on what their team delivers, not on how hard they personally worked. Enrol now and start the first lesson today.